[R-SIG-Mac] R code chunks

Ivan Calandra ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
Tue Apr 12 16:20:55 CEST 2016


Thanks a lot John.
I had tried, but only with the whole Editor window, not trying to 
extract single tabs from the Editor window...!

Ok, I think I'll switch to RStudio then, but still, the Mac R Editor is 
great ;)

Ivan

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Le 12/04/2016 15:56, John Magnotti a écrit :
> Hi Ivan,
>
> The latest version of RStudio does allow for at least the Source 
> Editor windows to be popped out of the main RStudio window. And you 
> can create a new graphics device (dev.new()) which effectively pops 
> the graph window out as well. I've found multiple sources windows + 
> graph windows on one monitor and the rest of RStudio on another 
> monitor is reasonably close to my workflow with R.app.
>
> take care,
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Ivan Calandra 
> <ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you Mollie and all,
>
>     So it looks like there's no way to properly use chunks within the
>     Mac R GUI.
>     I will have to decide whether I completely switch to RStudio, or
>     develop in the R GUI and then run in RStudio.
>
>     Still, until now I was a great fan of the R GUI on Mac so I'm a
>     bit frustrated. It would be great if this feature were integrated
>     to the R GUI some day! Alternatively, a better GUI for RStudio
>     allowing for multiple screens would be fine too (but that's for
>     another list!).
>
>     Bests,
>     Ivan
>
>     --
>     Ivan Calandra, PhD
>     University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
>     GEGENAA - EA 3795
>     CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros
>     51100 Reims, France
>     +33(0)3 26 77 36 89 <tel:%2B33%280%293%2026%2077%2036%2089>
>     ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>
>     --
>     https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
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>
>     Le 12/04/2016 15:05, Mollie Brooks a écrit :
>
>         Hi Ivan,
>
>         Using the R GUI and the built-in editor, you should be able to
>         format your document in the standard Rmarkdown or knitr way
>         and save it with the appropriate extension (Rmd or Rnw), but
>         only run lines within chunks in the console (using command +
>         enter in the normal way). You can make sure all the chunks are
>         working in that way. Then to format the whole document you can
>         use a command in the Terminal as described in the links Tom
>         sent or reopen the document in Rstudio.
>
>         Somehow my R GUI can’t find the right pieces to make the pdf,
>         so I have to use the Terminal. render("EstObsErr.Rmd")
>         produces the error
>         /usr/local/bin/pandoc EstObsErr.utf8.md
>         <http://EstObsErr.utf8.md> --to latex --from
>         markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash-implicit_figures
>         --output EstObsErr.pdf --template
>         /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/rmarkdown/rmd/latex/default-1.14.tex
>         --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable
>         'geometry:margin=1in'
>         pandoc: pdflatex not found. pdflatex is needed for pdf output.
>         Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 41
>
>         cheers,
>         Mollie
>
>         ------------------------
>         Mollie Brooks, PhD
>         Postdoctoral Researcher, Population Ecology Research Group
>         Department of Evolutionary Biology & Environmental Studies,
>         University of Zürich
>         http://www.popecol.org/team/mollie-brooks/
>
>             On 12Apr 2016, at 12:57, Ivan Calandra
>             <ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>             <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>
>             <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>             <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>>> wrote:
>
>             Thank you for your answer.
>
>             I don't usually use the Terminal, so I'm not sure how to
>             do it.
>             But do you mean to start it from the Terminal and then use
>             the R GUI or do everything in the Terminal? In the latter
>             case, I would prefer using RStudio... My question was
>             about using the R GUI Editor rather than RStudio.
>
>             Ivan
>
>             --
>             Ivan Calandra, PhD
>             University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
>             GEGENAA - EA 3795
>             CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros
>             51100 Reims, France
>             +33(0)3 26 77 36 89 <tel:%2B33%280%293%2026%2077%2036%2089>
>             ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>             <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>
>             <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>             <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>>
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>
>             Le 12/04/2016 11:41, Tom Hopper a écrit :
>
>                 Ivan,
>
>                 You need to run knitr manually from the terminal
>                 (RStudio automates this with the “knit” button). See
>
>                 http://joshldavis.com/2014/04/12/beginners-tutorial-for-knitr/
>                 http://kbroman.org/knitr_knutshell/pages/Rmarkdown.html
>
>                 for short tutorials on using knitr from the terminal.
>
>                 Regards,
>
>                 Tom
>
>                     On 201604 12, at 05:15, Ivan Calandra
>                     <ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>                     <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>
>                     <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>                     <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>>> wrote:
>
>                     Dear Mac useRs,
>
>                     A colleague of mine have introduced me to
>                     rmarkdown and knitr to produce nice reports. The
>                     other interesting thing here is to have so-called
>                     chunks of code, which I find very practical to
>                     organize scripts.
>
>                     I have found that it works well within RStudio.
>                     But is there a way to enable chunks within the R
>                     GUI (and its great editor)?
>                     What I don't like with RStudio (except that I need
>                     to install still another software, and place is
>                     limited on the 256GB SSD of my MacBook Air) is
>                     that it is not able to work on multiple screens.
>
>                     Thank you in advance for your help.
>                     Ivan
>
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>                     Ivan Calandra, PhD
>                     University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
>                     GEGENAA - EA 3795
>                     CREA - 2 esplanade Roland Garros
>                     51100 Reims, France
>                     +33(0)3 26 77 36 89
>                     <tel:%2B33%280%293%2026%2077%2036%2089>
>                     ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
>                     <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr>
>                     <mailto:ivan.calandra at univ-reims.fr
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